When Pat Franklin’s two year old granddaughter started to get active, Pat realized there were a lot of things she couldn’t do with her. She wanted to be able to keep up with her granddaughter, so she decided to do something about her weight issues. She came to Princeton Bariatrics for gastric lap-band surgery.

Theodore Roosevelt said, “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Working to reach your goal weigh is a pendulum swing of successes and failures. But, throughout the journey, if we are constantly trying to succeed, then the odds become stacked in our favor.